LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Led by Princeton
recruit Jake Froccaro, Team Freedom rolled through round-robin play
with a perfect 3-0 record to advance to the championship game of
the 2012 Champion All-American Showcase, a US Lacrosse event.
Freedom will meet Spirit in the championship game on Friday at 1
p.m. at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, and the game will be
aired on a tape-delayed basis at 7 p.m. on Friday on ESPNU.

The event features 96 of the best high school lacrosse players
in the country, and includes players from 31 states.

Froccaro has a tournament-high 10 goals and helped Freedom
defeat Spirit (10-9 in overtime), Liberty (18-9) and Pride (14-10)
to go unbeaten. Freedom’s potent offense has a
tournament-high 42 goals and has also featured Sam Llinares
(Hofstra) with seven goals and six assists, and Nick Kilkowski
(Rutgers) with five goals and three assists. Kilkowski scored the
overtime winner for Freedom in Wednesday night’s game against
Spirit.

Spirit will get a rematch against Freedom after winning the
tie-breaker to advance to the championship. Spirit, Liberty and
Pride all tied with 1-2 records, but Spirit had the lowest goals
allowed (23) in the tournament. Spirit goalies Jack Connelly
(Providence) and Matthew Sigmund (High Point) have combined for a
61.7 save percentage, and Spartanburg, S.C., native John Blackman
has poured in a team-high nine goals, including six in a dominating
16-1 win over Pride on Thursday morning.

The consolation game on Friday morning at 9 a.m. will feature
another rematch of a close round-robin game. Pride edged Liberty
9-8 on Wednesday night, but Liberty is coming off of its first
victory, a 12-5 win over Spirit on Thursday afternoon. Kevin
McNally (Albany) had three goals in that win while Jibran Ahmad
(Dartmouth) leads Liberty with six goals in the tournament. Liberty
goalies Colin Delea (headed to postgrad year at Phillips Exeter)
and Kris Alleyne (Rutgers) have been excellent with 29 and 21
saves, respectively.

Pride bounced back from its morning drubbing to Spirit to give
Freedom a tough game in a 14-10 loss on Thursday afternoon. That
game was tied 7-7 at the half. Jacob Fuller (Lynchburg) had three
goals against Freedom and leads the team with five in the
tournament. Ray Mastroianni (Lehigh) had three goals and an assist
in the loss to Freedom.